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Mustang Mountains, Pringle, September 12, 1884. M.B.G. 
Herb. No. 79929. 
-10. PODOSEMUM TEXANUM (Buckley) n. comb. 
Muhlenbergia Texana Buckley, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. 
1862:91. 1862. 
Muhlenbergia Buckleyana Scribner, ex Coulter, Contr. 
U.S. Nat. Herb. No. 1:56. 1890, a new name thought to 
be necessary, on account of M. Texana Thurber, but 
Buckley’s name is the older and has priority over Thur- 
ber’s. Dr. Gray and other botanists referred Buckley's 
species to Sporobolus confusus, but this last belongs to 
the genus Sporobolus, and is distinct from Buckley’s 
M. Texana. 
Western Texas to Mexico, according to Dewey in Manual of 
the Plants of Western Texas. 
I have not been able to see any specimens of this species, and 
Hitchcock writes me that Wright’s No. 736 is the only specimen 
in the U. S. National Herbarium from the United States. 
Mondo, Adans. 
BY OLIVER ATKINS FARWELL. 
Amongst the many genera that are listed as synonyms of Carex 
is Mondo, Adans. II 496, 1763. ‘Turning to Adanson, we find that 
Mondo is based upon Kaempfer, Amoen. Exot. t. 824 and is des- 
cribed as with flowers having 6 perianth segments! Turning now 
to Kaempfer, we find that Monto, pp. 823 & 825, plate page 824, 
is Ophiopogon Japonicus, Ker.—Gawl. and the plate is a very 
excellent illustration of the species. Since Ker.-Gawler, Thunberg, 
Kunth, and others quote, Mondo, Kaemp., as.a synonym under 
this species, it seems rather incomprehensible that Mondo (Kaemp.) 
Adanson is so universally referred as a synonym to Carex. Ophio- 
pogon was established in 1807, as Mondo antedates Ophiopogon 
by 44 years and since the latter is not a ‘“‘nomen conservanda”’ 
it must be displaced by the earlier name. The known species of 
Ophiopogon will be known as follows, under Mondo (Kaempf.) 
Adans. 
